Vachai people

The Vachai are a powerful and wealthy civilization who inhabit the Western end of the Great Continent, and lead the expanding empire known as the Dominion. The Vachai are a chiefly seafaring civilization, concentrated around semi-independent cities, mostly by the Vachai Sea and in colonies across the Great Continent. The Vachai Dominion is ruled by the Emperor from the capital city of Corienor, the largest and richest of the Vachai settlements.

They speak the Vachai language and follow the pantheistic Faith of the West, in which the main deity is Ardo, goddess of the seas. Most Vachai live off the sea, either through sea-based trade or fishing.

The origins of the Vachai are uncertain. According to the Vachai creation myth, the Vachai are descendants of the First Men, who were made out of salt and came out of Ardo's womb. Contemporary Vachai historians are yet to reach a consensus; the prevalent theory maintains the Vachai settled on the coasts of the Vachai sea around ten thousand years ago, after coming south from the Rago Aosoi mountain range through the Lagro river. From there, they progressively inhabited the area until reaching the Sunset Isles; it was sometime after that that the first cities were built (the oldest of which, according to conventional wisdom, is Allabor).